Tanya von Lichonine Kirchberger

Tanya von Lichonine Kirchberger, born around 1905, was a child of the Russian nobility, related on her mother’s side to the Volkonskys of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. During the 1917 revolution her family emigrated to Berlin, where she grew up and went to art school. On the eve of World War II, she and her Jewish husband fled to Paris. She continued to paint and by the 1970s was showing regularly at a gallery in Paris. She also published children’s books and a novel in French, Plus tard dans le nuit.